Fujifilm USA Verifies X100VI Limited Edition Orders for Fraud as Overpriced X100VI Limited Editions Flood eBay

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It could not work. And it didn’t.

Fujifilm USA and Europe opened the door to scalpers by deciding to sell the limited edition Fujifilm X100VI on a first-come-first-served basis.

Well, today was D-Day, and of course all units available today sold out within minutes.

The demand was so high, that the Fujifilm USA website even crashed as we can see also from reports over at our massive X100 user group.

And then the inevitable happened: within minutes, lots of overpriced Fujifilm X100VI limited edition cameras started to show up on eBay (usually sold for around 5K).

So far all as we expected.

But now Fujifilm USA has issued a statement (see above), that they are “manually verifying orders for fraud and suspicious activity“.

So not only the server crashed due to the traffic overload, but it seems also other problems might have occured.

We can only speculate on the nature of the potential fraud Fujifilm is investigating. Maybe some people found ways to grab several units using different accounts?

We do not know, but at least it’s good to know that Fujifilm USA is aware of it and looking into it.

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